Moto Learning Doujou: #3-7 Japanese Speaking and Writing Practice with Moto for N5 Beginner and Intermediate level, “かいしゃはor おつとめはどちらですか。Nounです。”

①Improvement of Speaking and Writing

こんにちは。モトです。I am Japanese and I am teaching Japanese. In this series, I will share my practice way for N5 Beginner and Intermediate level learners who want to review.

If learners are studying Japanese only for JLPT as test preparation, it might be difficult to improve speaking and writing Japanese actually, because the test does not cover Speaking and Writing. Thus, we set a Goal to improve Speaking and Writing in this series while learning JLPT N5 Beginner topics.

Features and Advantages

・While using Practice Sheet, we try to remember Question and Response sentences as Dialogue to learn how to use word and grammar. (Using story or dialogues, it could be easier to remember them efficiently.)

・It is also good to partially hide some words in tables in Practice Sheet by hand to check your progress or you can also change part of words and make another sentence like improvisation music.

・After Speaking, through making your sentences, you can improve Writing. (Based on your sentences, it is good to make your Practice Sheet and play Dialogues with other learners.)

・I will apply Minna no Nihongo to speaking and writing practice that covers almost all topics introduced by Genki so Genki user can also use this series.

(I will cite English translation from the textbook as it is, or I try to translate some expressions by myself. Now I am also learning English so my translation and explanation could be not correct or not natural, sorry for that.)

②Instruction of Exercise

Before Speaking & Writing exercises, check vocabulary and grammar.

Step1 Vocabulary

I referred to words (I marked with☆) and their translations from Page 22-23 in Minna No Nihongo Second Edition Elementary Japanese 1, Translation & Grammar Notes – English. I also added other words.

Who do you work for?おつとめは　どちらですか"otsutomewa dochira desuka"

Keiou hospital 　　　けいおう　びょういん　　　　　　Keiou Byouin

city office, city hall しやくしょ　　　　　　siyakusyo

Step2 Grammar

So, Today’s grammar topic is “かいしゃは or おつとめはどちらですか。Nounです。”.

I cited below [*1] sentences from Page24, Lesson 3, 練習A-5 in みんなの日本語初級Ⅰ第Ⅱ版本冊. I added “[ ] My grammar interpretation”.

“☆☆Basic Example Dialogue”

A１かいしゃは　どちら　　　　ですか。[*1]

kaisha　ｗa　dochira　　　desuka。

[Meaning of かいしゃは　どちら（or どこ）ですか depends on context. We can use どちら/どこ when we ask direction/location of the company. Another meaning of the sentence is that speaker asks the name of company where the listener is working. Thus, before this dialogue, there might be another part in which Person A and B were talking about B’s occupation and A got information that B is a company employee and thus A is asking name of company like above.

You can also use“おつとめはどちらですか。 or どちらにおつとめですか。”. I think it is better to use this one to ask “Where do you work for?”. If we are not sure that listener is working as company employee or not. This one covers not only asking name of company but also other organizations like hospital, name of school, university etc.]

B1 かいしゃは　IMC です。 [*1]

kaisha　wa　IMC desu。

I am working for IMC.

[You can omit かいしゃは and just say IMCです。.]

Step3　Speaking Exercise

Watch the video. You can use Speaking Practice Sheet.

Speaking Practice Video↓

https://youtu.be/exItRvYGPDg

“Practice Sheet”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18kFiKF4Ps_H6elL_eB3txB--kt_1xBih/view?usp=sharing

Step4 Writing Exercise

(W1) Read the above “☆☆Basic Example Dialogue” between Person A and B. The Dialogue contains Grammar topic in each time.

(W2) Try to make your dialogue between Person A&B like “☆☆Basic Example Dialogue”. In your dialogue, please try to use this time grammar topic “かいしゃは or おつとめはどちらですか。Nounです。” appropriately. Millions of mistakes are necessary for improvement, so you do not have to hesitate.

N5 level learner, if you have difficulty to write Dialogue style sentence, it is OK to write single sentences with grammar topic and OK to use only Hiragana. (It is easy-to-read to make space between word and word).

(W3) It is good to ask your teacher or Japanese friends to correct your sentences.

“For Intermediate Level Learners”

(W4) See the below “☆Advanced Example Dialogue”. Like the example, try to use this time Grammar topic “かいしゃは or おつとめはどちらですか。Nounです。” at least once and make your original Dialogue. In other words, if you just use the topic at least once, you do not have to use the topic anymore and you can make your dialogue freely. It is also OK to add more Person A&B part to make longer Dialogue.

“☆Advanced Example Dialogue”

A:　Bさんのお仕事は何ですか。

B:　会社員です。

A:　お勤めはどちらですか。

B:　無印です。無印のカレーはご存知ですか。レトルトカレーの研究開発をしています。

A: あー、知ってます。無印のカレーは美味しいですよね。僕も、たまに、バターチキンカレーや、キーマカレーを買いますよ。味が本格的ですよね。

So, like this, while using Today’s grammar topic, write your dialogue and if you add [ ] explanation and English translation, it will be helpful to understand and correct your sentences.

(If you have a difficulty to find out someone to correct your sentences and want to ask me to correct your sentences, check my “Moto Writing Doujou”.)

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